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Continuing to my previous article on 'Customizing debugging session' , we can further control on how properties and fields appear in our debugger window. Based on our debugging requirement, we can show and hide properties in our debugging session using one of the useful attribute named DebuggerBrowsableAttribute . Let’s go ahead and see debug window for one of the code snippet: In above image you will notice that by default list of Awards is not in expanded form. In order to view the values of awards, one needs to expand that forcibly either by hovering the mouse or by click on the plus symbol, which will result in below screenshot: How to hide unwanted properties during debugging session? What if a developer is not interested in viewing employee’s branch? Well, that unwanted property can be made hidden by using DebuggerBrowsableState as Never as shown below: Now let’s run the code and check, whether it is h...

I hope, being a developer everyone needs to debug their code at least once a day even if it is a very small snippet. Frankly speaking, sometimes it becomes very frustrating when we are looking for a value of particular property or let’s say very few properties of a huge object and it gets TIMEOUT. Uhhh !!! This time, we feel like there should be some easy way to navigate to that particular property instead of going to the object and clicking on plus symbol to reach the required property. Well, let’s understand it via code: Aim: I have an Employee class with two members as EmployeeName and BranchName. I want to know the name and branch of an Employee during my debugging session. So, I start debugging and lend up on below screen: Now in order to view the required details, I need to expand the employee object as shown in below screenshot: Now first question is, is there any way to display customized message in debugger window?  Answer wo...